abhimishra

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by abhimishra 14y ago
IMO the sign-off culture would be a problem at MS with or without triads. When you have such a large middle-layer (especially ones with ranks like 'partner' who seem to mostly be faking it) there are going to be loads of people whose chief
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by abhimishra 14y ago
And of course, we can expect that Ballmer will still be around...
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by abhimishra 14y ago
Oh I definitely can agree with the notion of renting a car for the edge case. Others have also suggested that families could have two cars, one electric for daily use and the other gasoline-powered for road trips or tasks that require more
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by abhimishra 14y ago
I'm glad you are skilled at being snarky and rude, but it has no place here on Hacker News (or really anywhere). Now onto your post: Writing off something as DOA because of current technologies is not a good argument at all. People made sim
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by abhimishra 14y ago
No one is mentioning Hydrogen fuel-cell cars that have been in trials, such as the Honda FCX Clarity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity ). Relative to battery-powered fully-electric vehicles, some advantages are: - Quick re-fu
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by abhimishra 14y ago
> Hydrogen vehicles are just plain stupid from an efficiency stand point - where are you going to get the hydrogen exactly? Purifying it is too expensive - and since it's lighter than air - there is no economical source of hydrogen on e
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by abhimishra 14y ago
How does the Model S solve the longer trips issue? On a road-trip I might drive 500 miles in a day. The priciest Model S gets 300 miles at 55 miles an hour. And with climate control on that is likely to be less in reality. If this trip were
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by abhimishra 14y ago
What about for IDE features that are 'non-intrusive'. A lot of the editor features Visual Studio (+ Resharper) or IntelliJ provide don't get 'in my way'. To be honest I can't think of many ways in which tools get in my way to be honest, exc
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by abhimishra 14y ago
I don't agree that it stops the language from advancing. What is your definition of advancement here, exactly? Lots of successful, productive languages pay attention to tooling as well. I see it as just weighing the costs and benefits of va
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by abhimishra 14y ago
I always used Java with Eclipse or IntelliJ personally. But in the Microsoft world it is not uncommon for coders to use tools that are very 'plain text' and 'ungraphical' like WinDbg even with languages like C#, alongside other tools like V
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by abhimishra 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why don't you like the idea of language developers spending time on tools?
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by abhimishra 14y ago
I don't think things have to be mutually-exclusive. The article suggests that you have to be in either the language camp or tools camp because of the time-investment developers have to make in either - but in reality the investment is small
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by abhimishra 14y ago
And yes, we do need to agree at a global level and be willing to pay more for certain goods/services as a result. The entire economic system will just re-balance itself around that, if we as a global society agree that the costs of inaction
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by abhimishra 14y ago
I am not sure that carbon taxes NEED to be regressive - we could definitely use some of the revenue from carbon taxes to offset lower-income groups, as is sometimes done with other regressive taxes. Another way to look at this is a simple c
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by abhimishra 14y ago
The article's headline is inaccurate. From Harvey Anderson's blog post ( http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/windows-eu-ballot-s... ): "Cumulatively 6 to 9 million Firefox browser downloads were lost during this period."
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by abhimishra 14y ago
This basically seems like a tax on hyperlinking, which is at the core of the web. Absurd. A Forbes article ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/10/30/explainin... ) explains further that the complaint from French publishers is abo
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by abhimishra 14y ago
Seeing as how Apple's "retina" displays are actually made by other folks (Samsung and LG for the 15" rMBP), I suspect we will see high-res panels on other laptops very soon. In fact, Samsung recently demoed a few Series 9 prototypes at IFA
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by abhimishra 14y ago
That's exactly what it is
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by abhimishra 14y ago
With all the articles written about all this, I am not sure what the real motivations behind Apple's recent shuffle are. However, I can say that the 'war on complacency', regardless of whether it is applicable here, is something sorely need
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by abhimishra 14y ago
This basically seems like a tax on hyperlinking, which is at the core of the web. Absurd. A Forbes article ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/10/30/explainin... ) explains further that the complaint from French publishers is abo
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by abhimishra 14y ago
Disagree - there is nothing rude about this. The thread is not "someone else's" - it exists to benefit the community. I, and others, found these additional leads useful.
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by abhimishra 14y ago
I and my family opt-out 100% of the time. Part of it is due to the unknown risks (however low the chance may be), part of it is on principle (violation of rights), and part of it is to have everyone else see in full-view that others are opt
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by abhimishra 14y ago
Agree, name and shame. If people believe there is a significant risk to their reputation in the community, that alone can function as a deterrent.
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by abhimishra 14y ago
Yes, but $69 is for a regular e-ink Kindle. The tablets don't start until $159.
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by abhimishra 14y ago
You don't need Gnome-Do when running in Unity, right?
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by abhimishra 14y ago
A good read, and more-or-less in line with my observations from working at a couple big software companies. I think there is generally less value in estimating versus doing, especially for tasks/projects that are inevitable.
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by abhimishra 14y ago
> He’s a pompous ass, pure and simple. No conspiracy required. I don't get where this sentiment comes from - care to explain?
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by abhimishra 14y ago
It's much much bigger - the blurb suggests that this is just the "release team", which I am guessing means they manage the release process.
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by abhimishra 14y ago
There isn't even a lack of talent that is already trained IMO - this is anecdotal, but I know of many unemployed coders who are capable and the education system is churning out thousands more every year. I find it hard to believe that corpo
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by abhimishra 14y ago
> Similarly, the restriction of the oil supply will drive up cost, drive down usage, and force the economy to grind to an ugly halt. The economy wouldn't necessarily grind to an ugly hault - there is a sweetspot in the middle, which you

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